Eu-Africa on the Move for a Smart and Inclusive Growth

The project Eu-Africa on the Move for a Smart and Inclusive Growth is a large-scale project which will involve directly 180 young unemployed from Portugal, Romania, Italy, Burkina Faso, Benin and Cape Verde, in order to contribute to improving the quality of support system for youth activities and the capabilities of civil society organizations in youth field.

All Partner organization have a strong mission to fight against youth unemployment by turning 180 participants from unemployed to youth workers following a strategic path in order to make young people aware of the professional empowerment and to allow them to acquire professional competences in the youth cooperation field by local and international activities in a Euro-Africa dimension.

The project aims to support the mobility of youth unemployed from 2 continents, giving them professional competences and knowledge in order to become active citizens able to turn ideas into action, developing youth entrepreneurship and improve the employability reality. Exchange of good practises, working methodologies and experiences is one of the core objectives of the European Employment Strategy (EES), which is now an integral part of the Europe 2020 Strategy.

This intercultural exchange will foster capacity building for youth organizations with a view to promoting the acquisition of new skills in order to enrich the youth profile as professionals in non-formal context. The project highlights the importance of NGOs in the society and how it can improve to the quality of civil society development by active participation of youth and intercultural Euro-Africa dialogue.

The meeting between different cultures will contribute to the professional and personal development of participants towards a more inclusive growth, stimulating the spirit of initiative, creativity and entrepreneurship with a long term youth cooperation perspective. The title Eu-Africa on the Move for a Smart and Inclusive Growth want to hightligh that the mission of the project go further the general objective of Youth in action Program and it would like to follow and contribute to the Strategy Europe2020 with its Smart and Inclusive Growth and focus on the Youth on the move Strategy spreading the information in two continent.